Comparative study of performance: Swang and Bretolt Brecht’s epic theatre and Verfremdungseffekt

Pages: 934-936
Sandhya Sharma (Culture, Chaudhry Charan Singh Haryana Agricultual University, Hisar, Haryana)
Satish Kashyap (Folk-Dramatist, Chaudhry Charan Singh Haryana Agricultual University, Hisar, Haryana)

Ancient folk theatre of India, Swang has a spectacular 2 similarity with Bretolt’s Brecht’s Verfremdungeffekt. Bretolt Brecht always advocated the entertainment with purpose. Same way Swang an epic theatre form of India is also advocating the same objective. In this study we tried to compare these forms in detail how both performance serve the same purpose.